h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"What sort of idiot fails to realise there's water in a cistern?"

Not in the showroom.

Fair play Winnoch but at one point he asked me how to spell Edinburgh /facepalm

If you didn't already know how, could YOU spell it based on the way it's pronounced? I certainly couldn't.

Bits of crunchy shell in my dulse

Or in shrimp, too!

Just pronounce it the way I hear American tourists say it. "Edin-burg", as in Hamburg...

I thought American tourists called it "Edinburrow"

PH: Travelling with STUFF. Why the hell can't I ever travel light? Case in point, Kraków. I only had my handbag with me, which is big enough to carry All THE THINGS for students. However, it does not fit a laundry bag of dirty clothes, shoes, purse and all else. Travelling home on the bus was fun, but it was an early one so I got seats to myself.

PH 2: When I have to sit beside someone on a bus. I like sitting against the window with my feet up and spreading out my stuff and being comfy.

Oh yeah I've heard that pronunciation too.

"I like sitting against the window with my feet up and spreading out my stuff and being comfy."

PH: People who do this on buses, especially when the only free seat is next to them.

Have I already mentioned Aer Lingus emailing me about cheap flights to Ireland? Cheap's relative - £25 isn't cheap if I can get there on the bus for a fiver!

I'd like to think someone living in Manchester could spell the capital city of the country whose borders are roughly three hours north of him

Well, to use an analogy, I don't even KNOW what the capital cities of Idaho and Oregon are, much less how they're spelled. 'Course that might just reveal my own ignorance and stupidity, but I don't think I'm alone here.

Yeah, but you could fit the entire UK into 1-2 US states

Boise and Salem, respectively.

Photocopiers. 'nuff said

Laundry, especially when there's three washing machines for the entire block. Having no clotheshorse and being unable to get it yourself, so having to reply on others. Having to rely on others, period.

Mr D: Y'see, if the only free seat is next to me, I don't do it. In contrast, I am mortified for people whom the bus driver will have to come down and say to them, "d'you mind moving your kid so this woman can sit?" Fair play to the guy, he did, but still...

Yeah, but putting your feet up? Other people have to use that seat and Bob knows what you pick up on your feet just going around the average city centre.

*sticks tongue out* No worse than what the average person sheds in a day.

„what is this?”
„What is that?”
„Where are you?” I’ve been out of the country for months, haven't you realised I’ve not been in classes? Or did you think I’d dropped out? (More than my life is worth.)

TLDR: People. Why didn't they refer me to this guy in the first place...?

Um, yes it is. Bus seats are bad enough without someone wiping their feet on them.